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Vol. LXXX No. 27,172
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FKIDAY. A PHIL S. 11)21
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TWO CENTS I TRTRtra CENTS I FOC3R CKNT'
In Greater New York I Within 200 Mil?* | ElMwhora
Lloyd George
Yields Point;
New Strike
Parler To-da\
1-diditight ?nnouncemen
of Premier in Commoni
Gives Hope After Disas
ter Seemed Inevitable
Eiic?ine Men Vote
To Join Walk-Ou
Unions Head- Issue Statf
ment Charging Plot t<
Reduce All Wages t<
the Pre-War Standar?
/? on The Tribune's European Bureau
C ,pyri?ht 1921, Nov.' York Tribun?? Ine.
LONDON. April 8. l?:50 A. M. Pr<
mier Lloyd George appeared dramat
cally in the House of Commons just b<
fore midnight and announced that
an effort to avert the nation-wide stril
?hat impends the government won
yield a point to tho coal miner?. I
?aid that the Cabinet was willing *
.irop its insistence that the safety m<
pumpers) be reinstated at the min?
)8 a preliminary to negotiation;? for
ttlement, and was now willing to di
j^s this question first, before the ma
ter of ?-ages was considered.
Whether this concession, meeting
: does the stipulation made by tl
miners that conferences must be e
tared without any limitation, is ad
?luate to forestall the walk-out of nca
|j four million railway men and tran
iiort worken whp voted yesterday
?iuit in sympathy with the miners,
not clear this morning. The suggesti
?.?.'as heard in parliamentary circles th
sfter yesterday's failure tho mine
would be unwilling to parley now.
Minister of Labor Mc.Vamara, i;
mediately after the Premier's a
t.ouncement. got in touch with t
leaders of the transport workers a
arranged to meet them later to-day
consider the turn in the situation.
Triple Strike Definitely Decided
A strike of all members of labo
triple alliance seemed a foregone cc
elusion when Parliament assembled ?
ter dinner last night. Both railw
men and transpon, workers had decid
definitely to throw in their lot w;
the striking miners, and only the <
tails of the strike remained to be fis
at a conference this morning.
The Premier, going before the Hol
I ? .'?nions in the afternoon, i
nounced tiie collapse of the negot
lions he had been carrying on w
'he miners. He said that other qu
?ions beside wages had become fun
mentally involved, indicating a rene'
of the demand by the miners for
tionalization of the pits.
While the Premier was speaking
'miners issued an appeal to the co
try to stand firm, dames Henry Thon
president of the railway men, also
sued a statement explaining tho st
of the allied unions. It said:
"We fee! that the conditions
:'ored, if accepted by the miners, w<
only be the beginning of a gen
attack on working class conditions
an attemot to bring back pre
standards."
A strike tying up the whole cou
is almost inevitable, unless the mi
accept the Premier's offer of fu.r
negotiations looking toward a se
Dent. If the strike" comes it will
all railroads, subways, trolleys, bu
and other means of transport, and
country will face an industrial c
the like of which it has never knov
Fresh Complications Injected
When the Premier came into
House of Commons for the first tin
'lie afternoon session, a whirl of
velopments had just begun to mal
Main that fresh complications
?risen and that the government
the miners were not going to be
to scree.
Concerning the conference he
with the miners earlier in the
l-loyd George Baid: "I very regret
and sorrowfully must acknowledge
'was completely wrong in my ant i
"on that there was something v
could be cleared up by convcrs
among ourselves, and I realize tha
challenge put forward by the in
;s of much graver, much deeper
more fundamental character than
1 had realized."
The situation was put up to the
net in a conference lasting an
and it was then that Lloyd G
Went to the House of Common:
told the members that the m
would not agree to reinstate the s
men, and that although they expi
readiness to meet the owners a
time, they continued to demand
norial wage system and a nationa
'?f profit:;.
"The government, relying or
<?Te:tt mass of the people, must
very means in its power to me<
situation which has arisen," sai
Premier.
Enginemen Also Voted to Strl
This was understood to mear
volunteer**! would be called for t<
UP local transportation service s
distribute essential food supplies
union of P.ailroad Firemen an
ameers, which with its 35,000 me
is not affiliated with the National
?f Railwaymen and which Wedi
??eraed likely to stay at work
?oted yesterday to strike in syn
with the miners, and the govor
'? fore, cannot count on suppor
this quarter.
If transport ?.renk- down tli'
_ iCcnttminJ 'on pa?o clghll
Polite Suicide to Gel
Funeral for Apo
Jersey Morgue Master i'*r,
lo Man Who Wrote Reg
for Trouble Claused
The first suicide who ever
note of apology to Gu?tave K
'?range, N. .1., for the trouble
?sing him, will be rewarded
thoughtfulneas by being burie
cuy cemetery instead of in :
?"?Id, Mr. Kunz, who has been
1 !' ! of Ksstx County for
years, will f-ive "the u
de a dignified funeral and
?': a special coffin, unless the
'""?titied by relatives within
?ays.
In a note found on the be
?u.cide wrote: "I hope the m
?anule my body will exc i
l?? troubi? I give them "
Par?s Radicals Protest
Honoring of Napoleon
PARIS, April 1?.?The Federa?
tion of the Radical Socialist
party in the Paris district, one
of the strongest groups in .Par?
liament, has adopted a motion
unanimously protesting- against
the government officially asso?
ciating itself with the celebra?
tion of the centenary of Na?
poleon. The resolution declares
that this is "in defiance of the
democratic idea, having for its
sole object the accustoming of the
masses to the idea of a dictator
Harding to Ask
400 Millions
For U. S. Fleet
Strong Plea lo Maintain
Merchant Marine Will Be
Made to Congress in
Message Next Tuesday
Economy Wave Is Feared
Net Loss Now Is S 1,000,000
a Day: Money Needed to
Tide Over Dull Times
By Carter Field
WASHINGTON, April 7.?President |
Harding: will make a forceful plea for
the American merchant marine in his I
message to Congress next Tuesday.
Tho President realir.es that the net loss !
on' operation of the Shipping BoRrd at '.
present is more- than a million dollars
a day, his advisers declare, but he be- j
lieves the expenditure to be well worth
while providing', that a permanent j
American merchant marine can be
built up.
"What is disturbing the President, i
it is said, is the fear that Congress, !
committed to a policy of rigid economy i
and anxious above everything else to ?
reduce taxes, on the theory that to i
fa : 1 to do this would spell disaster in
the Congressional elections next year. |
will not be willing to make the neces- !
sary appropriations.
It is estimated by some of the Presi- !
dent's advisers that the appropriation
which must bo asked of Congress will j
not be far short of $400,000,000,'and it j
may easily reach half a billion dollars. {
Mr. Harding firmly believes, it is I
learned, that if an American merchant i
marine can be built up it will be well '
worth thi.s appropriation, and some !
very large additional ones for the next I
few years until the American flag is j
(irmly established on the seas.
Foreigners and Low Hates
The President has been convinced by j
some of his advisers, it is learned,
that several foreign nations are will- j
ing to do almost anything in the way of;
establishing low freight rates now in j
order to kill off American competition i
on the seas. During the present period
of world-wide falling off in interna- !
tional shipments, as well as domestic j
shipments, there are temporarily more I
ships than are needed, which means ',
that the foreign ship owners can kill
two birds with one. stone by fixing low \
rates. One of the "birds" is to keep i
their ships moving and in condition, !
even if they are not earning anything. ?
The other is to discourage the Ameri- !
can public from paying high bills in j
taxation to maintain a merchant ma- !
rine which continues to lose money in j
large amounts.
Mr. Harding also has been convinced i
that if this government is willing to !
weather the present storm?if it is j
willing to spend the money necessary I
to keep the ships on the high seas dur- |
ing this frantic drive by foreign ship- ?
ping interests to kill off this new com- i
petition?that in the long run the \
merchant marine will pay its own way i
and be a tremendous source of strength !
to America. He believes that only by i
having an adequate American merchant .
marine can the industries and com- j
rnerce of this country be expanded ..s \
they should be. In short, he believes ;
that the present losses will be repaid !
over and over again in one way and j
another if patience is only exercised !
at this time.
Rut the President is genuinely per?
turbed over the problem of inducing
Congress to exercise this patience.
His own experience in the Senate
showed him the opposition to anything
to which the words "ship subsidy" can
be attached. As n newcomer in the
Senate, five or six years ago, he heard j
old Senators, as, for instance, Jacob II. j
Gallinger, of New Hampshire, tell of ?
their battles stretching back for dec-;
ades to obtain popular support for an j
American merchant marine and the
constant failure which had attended
them.
Favor? Delivering Speech in Person j
So while the President is determined,
he realizes he has i hard tight before j
him and he is most anxious to gain |
popular support for the appropriations j.
which will ue necessary for the Ship- j
ping Hoard unless the whole projest j
is to be ended. This is said to be one j
of the potent reason*! why the Presi- ]
dent wishes to deliver his message to i
Congress in person instead of having j
seme legislative clerk read it in a
singsong voice, while .Senators and
members gather in groups and talk ?
over their local patronage questions.
In this connection there is much in- I
terest in a leaflet circulated here j
by President Philip do Ronde, of the I
tContlnutt) on p.ta? ?eve??
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Mandate Plea
Position That America h
Entitled to Full Shar<
in Fruits of Victory h
Held To Be Establishec
No Reces.sioH From
Program Possible
Policy To Be Adhered tc
Rigorously, Regardless
of Action of Japanese
From The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, April 7. Acceptanc
by the governments of Japan, (Ire:;
Britain, Franco and Italy of the prin
ciple of equality of rights between a
the Allies in territorio:; acquired b
reason of the victory over Germany, a
demanded in the identic notes sent b
the American State Department t
these governments, is confidently ex
pected by high officials of the Hardin
Administration.
While tho American notes do not r<
quire individual responses from th
governments to which they were ad
dressed. Administration officials to-da
said that it was quite likely that oppoi
(unity would be taken by each to ac
vise the United States that the reasor
ableness of the American demand wa
admitted, and that suggestions migli
be forthcoming as to some practic:
method of establishing definitely bo?
th? American viewpoint might h
gained in future consideration of que;
lions involving the distribution and th
control of mandate territories.
Position "Clear and Tenable"
The American note was described a
stating a position "perfectly clear an
tenable," which would doubtless 1
subscribed to by the powers associate
with the United States in the war. Th
whole question of mandates, it. wi
said, may be expected to be settled o
'ho unselfish basis proposed in tk
United States notes.
In the event that a contrary vie
should be advanced by Japan or any <
the other nations involved, it was ofl
cially declared to-day that the Amer
can policy of equality would be rigo
ously adhered to and in no wise d?v
ated from. The contention was mai
that the American government's pa
ticipation in the war was at a perk
when Allied opposition to the Germs
enemy was at its lowest ebb, and th:
without the participation of this natic
vanquishment of the enemy might n
have developed, or at least been d
layed, with its attendant loss of Alii?
life and property.
"It would be quite an extraordina
ilevelopment if opposition is taken
the just principle of equality advanc
by this government," one high offici
said, when asked what further acti?
the United States could take in eve
of a rejection of the Americ;
principle.
Contention Held Established
The soundness of tho American co
tention that as co-belligerents in t
victorious war this government shot)
not be deprived of any of the fruits
that conflict, and that the rights ?
cruing to this nation by reason of
aid in bringing about, this victo
could not be surrendered by any acti
of the Council of the. League of >
tions, the formation of which tl
government has not approved, was h<
to be definitely established.
Relinquishment of American righ
it was held, could only be brout
about through a properly negotial
treaty, and as this government 1
made no such agreement or pact t
rights of the United States s
existed.
The American State Department
clay was advised that the Americ
mandate note had been received by
the governments to which it was ;
dressed. It is understood that cop
of the not? were dispatched to Ann
can representatives there to call it
the attention of the foreign offices
those nations.
Wilson Action Weakens
11. S. Stand on Manda
America To Be Invited to Se
Envoy to League to Exami
Records on Yap ?ss
By Ralph Courtney
Special Cable, to The. Tribune
Copyright. 1921, New York Tribune Ine
PARIS, April 7. ?- The Europ
powers already are preparing when
time comes to express the fullest"s;
pathy but little else with the posit
taken by the Harding government
its recent note on the question of m
dates which was sent to the princ
Allied powers.
Both France and Great Britain
officially mute, but The Tribune co
spondent understands that the Un
States will not find its case such p
sailing as it possibly expects.
In the first place the Allied pov
will reply to the United States
this question cannot be settled ex.
at a round-table conference. The Wi
ington government will be invitee
(Continued on p?j? four)
Sun Yat Sen Elected
President of Chi
Canton Parliament Unanime
ly Chooses Firs! Provision?
Executive
HONOLULU, T. IL, April 7.
Chinesc Parliament sitting at Ca
has unanimously elected Dr. Sun
Sen, first Provisional President
China at the time a republican for
government was substituted for
empire, as President of the Chi
Republic, says a dispatch received
Canton, China, to-day by the Lil
News, a Chinese newspaper here.
China has been seriously dividei
the past two years or more, the hi
ern provinces insisting that
would break away form the norttr
form a separate Government. It
asserted last summer that the eli
nation of the Anfuites from the
inet of the northern republic ren
the last obstacle to the unificatii
the country, but Dr. Sun Yat Ser
Wu Ting Fang and other sou
leaders refused to consider prop
from the Peking government '
would make for an adjustment o
difficulties between the two regie
,-?-___
Gerinan Who Attacked
Allied Envoys Shot
BERLIN, April 7.?Tho Ber?
liner Zeitun*? reports that a Ger?
man captain named von Demninp
recently attacked and wounded
three officials of tho inter-Allied
Plebiscite Commission at Glei
witz, Prussian Silesia. The news?
paper says von Demning was then
shot down by another member of
the commission.
Hylan to Run.,
Says Murphy;
Craig Dropped
First Official Statement of
the Mayor's Intentions Is?
sued; Tammany Said To
Be Done With Comptroller
Kiiott Backed for Place
Repuhliean Favorites, Who
Can Prevent Legislative In?
quiry, To Be Remembered
Charles F. Murphy at Tammany Hall
yesterday raid that Mayor John P. Hy?
lan would he renoniinated and re
clooted.
"lie ?s honest and efficient, and the
people generally approve his l'ccord,"
Mr. Murphy added.
"Have there heen any conferences'
v.-ith William R. Hearst, or his agents :
looking to the renomination of the '
Mayor?"
"None that 1 have taken part in,"!
raid Mr. Murphy.
it is practically-settled that Comp-i
troller Charles L. Craig will not be re-?
nominated, it was learned yesterday.
Talk around Tammany Hall indicates
that Sheriff David II. Knott, a prime'
favorite in Tammany Hall and a liberal
contributor to the Tammany war chest,
will be chosen for Comptroller.
The nominee for President of the :
Board of Aldermen is likely to come
from the Bronx or Queens.
The choice of Knot!, for Comptroller
will balance the ticket geographically.
Murphy's Announcement Official
The announcement from Chief Mur- 1
phy that Mayor Hylan is to be renom
inated is the first pronouncement to
that effect that might be considered
official. The Evening Journal had
printed a statement that Hylan would j
he renoniinated, but the rank and tile
of Tammany Hall were not settled in
their minds until they heard that Mr. ?
Murphy had decided that it must be
Hylan again.
The Murphy announcement is sus?
ceptible of but one interpretation by j
tho politicians, and that is that Mr, |
Murphy and his district leaders are. :
going to try to forget all of the bitter
attacks by the Hearst press, all the
cartoons, and treat them all as bygones.
The blocking of the proposed legis?
lative investigation of the Hearst- ?
Hylan-Tammany control of the City
Hall by Jacob ?. Livingston, the Brook?
lyn Republican organization leader, as?
sisted by Speaker Machold and Tam?
many Senators and Assemblymen, fits
in perfectly with the desires of Mr.
Murphy and William R. Hearst.
Any patronage that can be handed to
certain Republican favorites in return
for immunity from a legislative com?
mittee inquiry will be forthcoming in
due time. Republicans expect that if
Hylan is re?lected salaries- will take
another jump along with (he jumping
tax rate.
Craig'a Political End Forecast
The turning down of Craig is be- >
lieved in Tammany Hall to be the end
of him politically. His hand is against
his political colleagues in the Hoard of
Estimate, and he is not amenable to
party discipline. Sheriff Knott is in
the hotel business and has had long'
training in getting along amicably with
people. Tammany contractors, whose
bills have been hung up for the last
three years for one reason or another
by the Comptroller. have united
against him in a demand that Craig be
retired. They don't know what Knott
may do with their claims, but they rea?
son that he cannot be any worse than
Craig.
At Tammany Hall yesterday it was t
learned that the only issue, discussed is !
Governor Miller's traction reorganiza- ,
tion and the possibility of an increased
fare. No matter what the Governor's ;
commission may do, the Hearst-Hylan- ;
Tammany campaign will be fought with
"No increased fare" as one of the big
slogans. If the new commissioners j
should find it impracticable to make a j
definite recommendation concerning!
fares before Election Pay the Mayor's j
campaign managers will insist that
they are holding back from political
motives, and that as soon as they can j
do it with safety they will put over an
increased fare.
! Miller Calls
Hylan Probe
Conference
Governor to Preside al
Session Monday, When
Final Decision on In?
quiry Will Be Made
Vote on Measure
Held Up in Senate
Lobby Delays Reporting
Out of the Resolution;
Koenig Qualifies View
From a Staff Correspondent
ALBANY, April 7. - Tho Sonate, which
to-dcy was to have reported out the
resolution providing for a graft in?
vestigation of the City of New York,
did not do so, as was predicted yester?
day after the visit hero of Jacob A.
Livingston, the Kings County boss, and
the little army of Hcarst-Hylan-Tam
niany adherents who have been working
with equal zeal to block a graft inquiry.
Senator Theodore Douglas Robinson,
nephew of the late Colonel Roosevelt,
who with Assemblyman Joseph Stein?
berg opened the fight in the Legis?
lature for an investigation, when asked
if ho believed the investigation blocked,
said:
"No, I do not. No one can make mo
believe that. Mr. Livingston runs tho
Legislature or the Governor."
A conference, it was learned to-night,
has been arranged for next Monday at
:i o'clock, which will be presided over
by Governor Miller, and will be attend?
ed by those who have been urging an
investigation. Finn R. Brown, former
majority loader of the Sonate, who has
been examining the material laid bo
fore the legislative leaders showing
corrupt conditions in some of the Now ;
York Citv departments, also will be. !
present. Tho fate of the investigation,
it is said, may be decided at that timo. !
Miller Silent on Subject
Governor Miller, who was absent; in'
New York City while Mr. Livingston
and the hi-partisan combine wore get
ling in their line work, said earlier in
I he evening that ho did not know the
cxiiet state of affairs, or tho reasons
which actuate:! the change of front on
th.o part of the Legislature, and there?
fore did not want to discuss the sub?
ject until he had talked with the legis- '
lative loaders.
The Governor said that he expected
to confer with tho legislative leaders :
within tho next twenty-four hours, and
then might have something to say.
"Everybody," the Governor was told,
"has his eyes on you, and is wondering
if you will suggest that the Legislature
go through with the investigation."
"That is up to the Legislature," re?
plied tiie Governor.
"The attitude of tho Legislature
seems to be that, there won't be an in?
vestigation unless you urge it, and
the disposition seems to be to pass the ,
matter by unless you call on them to
put it through. Could you inform the
public what, will be done?"
Leaders Must Decide
"1 have not talked with any of thej
leaders of the Legislature on tho sub- |
?ect since I was away yesterday. It is '
a matter fur them to decide. I am not
going to try to run tho Legislature."!
"You could suggest an investigation'
in a message to tiie Legislature," the
Governor was reminded.
"Yes, I could, but I don't think I
shall."
"You could suggest it without send- \
ing a message?"
"Yes, but I am not certain enough :
myself to send a message on the sub- ?
?ect. There is one thing to my mind
that is perfectly clear, that I have said
all along. Everybody admits that a
charter revision is required, ^hat was \
the fundamental thing at tho bottom
of my suggestion. An investigation
-uch as a legislative committee could '
?onduct, would be appropriate to pave
the way for the constructive work:
which a revision commission would
have to do, and it seemed to me so I
)lain that that was needed that T
think T said I favored it. I still favor
it, but I am not bossing the Legisla?
ture."
The attitude of Mr. Livingston last ,
December, when the question of an
investigation was first raised was re-,
called. Then, the Governor was in- I
formed, Mr. Liv;ngston said he was ?
opposed to an investigation because he j
regarded it as a fishing excursion, a :
view not justified by the twenty in- j
lictments found as the result of ex- j
Governor Whitman's investigation, j
?<hieh is limited to one of the five I
counties.
Whitman's Opinion Recalled
"Ex-Governor Whitman, who is di
t'ecting the investigation, has said that
the graft trails led into other counties '
ind that a legislative investigation is j
necessary," Governor Miller was in- j
formed.
"Is that what Governor Whitman (
said?" inquired the Governor.
"Yes, he said that publicly, and his j
(Continued an page six)
Convict Brindell Spurns Hash,
Gets Eggs; Waiter Is Punished
OSSINING, N. V.. April 7.- Robert P.!
i Brindell, convicted labor leader, who
; is convict No. 72,328 at Sing Sing,
! spurned a plate of hash at a midday
I meal and accepted a plate of ham and ;
I eggs as a substitute, it became known !
to-day.
In doing so he violated a prison rule, !
and likely will have to pay the penalty, j
i The waiter who served the delectable ]
; dish is already suffering in conse?
quence. He was locked to-day in a pun- j
ishment cell and probably will be j
I shipped to an upstate prison for disci
? pline. Convict No. 72,328, despite the
I fact that he dominated thousands of
I wage-earners prior to his arrival at
! Sing Sing, will find there's to be no
| special privileges and no domination
at the prison, according to Sing Sing
authorities.
Brindell belongs to the rookie cate
: gory at Sing Sing. He must govern'
1 hiniself accordingly. Ham and eggs I
; are served only to patients at the hos?
pital. Newcomers, in particular, are
denied privileges and must walk a
chalk line.
Brindell, with other rookies, took his
! seat at a plain board table and was
; offered simple fare?grub, the prisoners
call it. The labor leader imperiously
I cast aside the steaming plate of hash
!
that had been placed before him. A
keeper saw this and so did a waiter
The keeper said nothing and kept look- '
ing. The waiter, having heard of the
power wielded by Convict 72.:!2S in
the building trades industry, scurried
c-at for a dish more suited, he thought
to the newcomer's epicurean tastes'
He returned in a short time with sev?
eral slices of ham and two egg?; sun iv
side up. ' *'
The keeper had seen all this. Hc
told everything to Assistant Principal
Keeper John Sheehy and Assistant
Principal Keeper Sheehy told every?
thing to Warden Lewis E. Lawes. The
waiter was immediately marched to a
punishment cell and action will be i
taken in his case in a day or two '
Brindell will be punished, if it js ;
proved that he was aware that he was
violating a prison rule in accepting
food other than that provided on the
regular menu. Punishment in his case
would mean that he would be dropped I
from Grade A, the grade that he now
holds, to Grade B. The Grade B pris
oners are denied privileges allowed!
the other inmates.
Brindell will be placed on trial in a '.
court conducted onee each week by
Warden Lawes.
1
rJwell Confessor Says
He Knows Identity of
Woman Who Flired Him
I-.-___-_-,
Where Harris's Story of Elwell
Murder Fails to Follow the Facts
From a Staff Correspondent
BUFFALO, April 7.?Roy Harris, who related in detail to-day j
his story of the Elwell murder, in which he says he took part, gave a
narrative that was coherent, but which contained several conspicuous
discrepancies. They were as follows:
Harris insisted that the Elwell home was on Seventy-first Street.
As a matter of fact the house was at 244 West Seventieth Street.
He kept repeating that the murder occurred on the morning: of
June 12. it took place on June 11.
He was sure that the reception room in which the shooting took
place was on the left of the hallway, as one enters the three story gray
stone house. It is on the right.
He said there was a door leading from the reception room into
the dining room behind. There is no door there.
He was positive Elwell came down stairs just before he was shot,
in a pair of slippers. Elwell was found sitting in the death chair in
his bare feet.
The cigarettes which he and his confederate smoked in the recep?
tion room while waiting for Elwell's return home, he said, were Pall
Malls. The stub of a cigarette found on the floor of the room was a
Came!.
Harris smoked these latter cigarettes all through his narrative at
police headquarters to-day.
Although he says he was in Elwell's house from 12:45 o'clock the
morning of the murder, Harris makes no mention of certain telephone
calls known to have been made in the early hours of that day. Some
one called up William 11. Pendleton, the racetrack man, at Far*Roek
away, between 2:15 and 2:;]0 o'clock. It has also been established that
Miss Viola Kraus spoke to Elwell by phone at 2 o'clock on the same
morning.
$10,000 Asked,
Man Held in
Rankiiie Case
Detectives Seize Occupant
of Booth After Nye
Traces Phone Calls Re?
garding Missing Woman
Charge Larceny Attempt
Plotter Wanted Money
Left in Shoe Box; Doubt
He Possesses Any Clew
Albert Kraft, a railroad brakeman,
living at 506 West Forty-second Street,
was locked up at Police Headquarters
last, night, after being trailed by tele?
phone most of the afternoon, charged
with attempted grand larceny in de?
manding $10,000 ransom for the re
leas" of Mrs. Annette K. Rankine, of 14
East Sixtieth Street, the wealthy
widow who has boon missing since last
Friday.
Neither tiie police nor the private
detectives working on the case believe
that Kraft knows any more about Mrs.
Rankine's disappearance than he could
learn by reading the newspapers. Both
are convinced, however, that he is the
man who telephoned to William Nye, a
detective in tho employ of the Guar?
anty Trust Company, of which Mrs.
Rankine's brother is an official, offer?
ing to set tho woman free for .$10.000.
The first telephone call was received
by Mr. Nye in his office, at 14') Broad?
way, about 2 p. in. The speaker was
guarded in his statements, as if fearful
of being overheard, but mentioned Mrs.
Rankine's name and promised to call
again at 2:30. Mr. Nye in the mean
time traced the telephone call to the
Grand Central Terminal and notified
the police.
Uses Another Booth
Detective Walsh of tho East. Fifty
first Street police station was at the
pay station at the Grand Central at
2:30, but no one called the Guaranty
Trust Company from there at that
hour. After waiting a few minutes
Walsh telephoned to Nye, who said that
the stranger had telephoned promptly
at 2:!i0, but this time from 105 West
Fortieth Street.
Nye told the detective that the man
had demanded $10,000 for the release
of Mrs. Rankine, directing that the
money be counted out in bilis of small
denomination, placed in a shoe box and
left for him at a restaurant in Wes't
Forty-second Street, the appearance and
situation of which he described. Ile had
promised to call again. Nye said.
Walsh hastened to 105 West Fortieth
Street. The telephone booth was un?
occupied, He telephoned to Nye that
he would go to the restaurant, and the
bank detective told him he was sending
two of his men to a cigar store in the
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Meyer Introduces Bill
To Revise Gty Charter
-.
Resolution Provides Board ofj
15, Including Mayor, to Sug- i
gest Changes to Legislature
Special Dispatch to The. Tribune
ALBANY, April 7.?Senator Schuyler
Meyer to-night introduced the bill cre?
ating a commission to revise the New
York City charter and recommend
changes for consideration by the next
Legislature. The bill is a companion j
measure to the New York City graft
investigation resolution now before the i
Senate Finance Committee.
The charter revision measure carries i
an appropriation of $25,000 and creates j
a commission of fifteen, eleven of \
whom are to be appointed by the Gov?
ernor. They must be residents of the j
City of New York. The remaining j
four are to be the Mayor, the Corpora- j
tion Counsel, one of the five Borough i
Presidents and a member of the Board !
of Aldermen.
The. measure was referred to the I
Financial Committee without debate. I
Girl Confesses
$20,000 Jewel
HoM-UpIsHoax
Young Woman and Newark
Jeweler Held After Their
Alleged Admission That
They Reported False Theft
Rehearsed Robbery Scene
Firm Insured Against Bur-1
glary; Complained Once
Before of a S 12.000 Loss |
-
Altar being grilled by the police for!
four hours, Miss Gussie Lerner, I
eighteen years old, of 314 Fifteenth.
Avenue. Newark, is said to have con?
fessed last night that the sensational
diamond robbery story told by her and
Harry Heyman, of Heyman Bros.,
jewelers, 129 Oliver Street, Newark, in
which they said hold-up men had
robbed them of diamonds worth $20,
000 on Wednesday night, was false and !
the result of a conspiracy. Heyman is '
i'lleged to have corroborated her con- ;
fession.
.Miss Lorner, in tears, told detectives
who questioned her at Police Head
quarters that every phase of the rob-:
bery had been rehearsed by Heyman
and herself more than twenty times.
She had worn an old dressing gown to
roll on the floor in acting on Heyman's
suggestion, and when the time came to
act out the robbery in earnest, they
were letter perfect in their parts, she
is said to have declared.
Their Story of Robbery
According to the tale told by Hey?
man and Miss Lerner, when the police
were called to the store Wednesday
night, three masked robbers had en?
tered the front door, placed revolvers
at their heads, and had taken more
than $20,000 of cut and uncut diamonds
from the showcases and safe. The po?
lice doubted the story, because neigh?
bors who were sitting on their porches
across the way from Heyman's store,
which is the second floor of the build?
ing, and Robert E. Dick, who has an
electrical appliance shop on the main
floor, declared that they had seen no
one enter or leave the building. It
was also learned that Heyman Bros,
carried $20,000 burglary insurance
and that a similar robbery in which
$12,000 wortii of diamonds had al?
legedly been stolon had been reported
to the police by the firm early in 1920.
Police Captain Frank Brex sent for
Miss Lerner yesterday and found that !
she had, been summoned by telephone i
to Heyman's house. From there she I
was tabeen to Police Headquarters and j
questioned. As first she insisted that
the story of the robbery was true, and
it was not until told that evidence of a :
conspiracy was in possession of the
authorities that she broke down and
told her story.
Rehearsed Robbery
"Some weeks ago," Miss Lerner said,
"Mr. Heyman told mo that he. was
facing financial rum and asked me if
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Girl Loses $5,000 Radium ?
Search Made to Save Life of !
Finder as Well as Sick Ones
Special Dispatch, to Thr Tribune "
CHICAGO, April 7.?Living death in
a golden capsule, fastened v/itn a silken ?
cord, is secreted somewhere in Chicago
to-day, a constant menace to the one
who has it in his possession. It is liv
ing death, but it means a new hope of
life to scores of patients n Chcago hos
ptals.
The capsule contains fifty milligrams
of precious radium, valued at more!
than $5.000. it was ?ost in a north- j
bound Englewood elevated train last !
Saturday morning by Miss Lillian
Brown, employed by a -;roup of promi
nent Chicago physicians who jointly !
owned the radium.
The hunt for the mL.iing radium is
being conducted not only to save the
life of the finder, but to bring relief
to the hospital suflTerci?-.
Saw 'Mrs. FairchildV Pic
ture in Paper After Mur?
der, Declares Harris in
Detailed Crime Story
"Swore to Get Man
Who Wronged Her"
Offered to Give All She
Had for Revenge, Youth
Asserts in Buffalo Jail
From a Staff Correspondent
BUFFALO, April 7.?Roy Harris,
the confessed accomplice of the mur
: derer of Joseph Bowne Elwell, th??
New York sportsman and whist
i king, last June, told a reporter foi
The Tribune here to-day that he
, knew the identity of the Mrs. Fair
child who employed him and his pa.
' to kill the turfman.
He refused to make public her
name at this time, because, he said,
I there was just the smallest possi
' bility that he may be wrong. He
: said he recognized her picture in a
'. New York newspaper about a week
or ten days after the murder. It
; was printed on an inside page, he
added. He declared that the genera'
features in every way coincided with
those of the woman who had agreed
[to give him and his colleague $2,500
each for the crime.
Tells of Murder Coolly
Harris recounted all the events
leading up to the murder with the
greatest coolness. The intensely
dramatic details of the actual shoot
ing of the sportsman he narrated
in a hesitating yet deliberate tone.
as though more interested in a logi
cal story than merely in recounting
what he had seen or knew. Beyon?i
this deliberate manner there wa
nothing abnormal about him.
His story, however, was full of vitssl
discrepancies. Despite these, thougi'
the authorities here maintain that his
confession has every earmark of sin?
cerity.
Harris asserted he had never in?
tended to fulfill his part of tho p?o'
at any time, declaring he had mad?
up his mind to get as much money a1
he could without going through with
his end of the crime. When he had
received' $500 of the $2,500 promisee
money, he said, he had offered to give
the money back to the woman a short
while before they entered the Elwel
home, but, ?4- said. William Duncan
his colleague, threatened "there would
be another murder before they go
there."
In or'der to reassure him. he said
"Jerry," the chauffeur, who introduced
him and Duncan to the Fairchiid wo
man, told him that it would bo "all
right" to go through with the murder
as they were to be protected by a
politician, who said he would fix things
up if they got into trouble.
He descyibed Mrs. Fairchiid a?
thirty to thirty-five years old. weigh?
ing about 130 pounds, of medium?
height and rather plump build, with a
straight nose.
She was a dark blonde with blu<
eyes and had the appeara?7ce of ben .
well to do. She was bedeckeJ witl
jewelry, displaying many diamora
rings on her fingers, he said, w th a
ruby lavaliiere about her neck. There
was evidence of refinement about her.
ho added, but she was not averse oc?
casionally to using harsh epithets.
Wore Fawn-Colored Cape
In the three times that ho saw her,
he said, she was conspicuously attired
in a yellow fawn colored cape, a black
turban hat trimmed with dull red. a
three-quarter b.-ngth dark skit, higa
heel French pumps and black silt
stockings.
Ho said Duncan was an Italian whom
ho had ?net in Joseph 1 hum's bowling
alley below Greeley Square about, three
months before, lie described hia col
league as a man of tho worsl
and said he never knew where he Iive?i
"He was cold-blooded," added Harri
"and would kill a man ?s ?luick as yo
or I would eat custard pie."
Harris insists he was not in the re
ccption room when Duncan lired th?
.45-caliber bullet through Elwell''
brain on that Friday m or nine. He ha?
plenty of opportunity to kill th?
sportsman two or three times, he sai?!
and when they were fleeing from th?
scene Duncan, he asserted, called hin
"yellower than an oil can."
Harris was dozing at Police Hea?
quarters to-day when he was asked f
tell the first complete story of the mur
der. When reporters expressed regre
at having to awaken him, he replie?
rubhing his eyes.
"Oh, that's all right, It's no troubl
at all."
Harris continually puffed at cigai
ettes, but was perfectly at ease as h
told this story:
"I am twenty-three years old, wa
born at Bridgeport, Conn., and am
jack of all trades and master of non
"I was passing a hotel at Thirtj
sixth Street and Seventh Avenue ?
the night of June 9, about 8 o'cloc!
when I met Duncan standing in fror
of the place. While we were talking
ehauifeur, whom I later knew ;
Jerry, drove up in a limousine. S
stepped up to Duncan and said:
"? 'There is some easy money to 1
made.'
"But he didn't say how. Duncan mal
a doubtful expression, and Jerry poin
ed with his thumb into the automobil
saying:
" Look in there and see for yours?:
? looks good.'
"We got interested and went ot
to the car. a woman all dolled up w